Faithfully Yours, Jessie Redmon Fauset
STORIES, POEMS & PERSONAL ESSAYS
As a writer, editor, mentor, and diplomat, Jessie Redmon Fauset was an essential, unwavering, and unsung force of the Harlem Renaissance. This volume celebrates Fauset’s exceptional and often overlooked talent as a writer.
This meticulous and comprehensive collection is the first to include all of her short stories, poems, and personal essays published in Harlem Renaissance periodicals, anthologies, and literary journals.
Enjoy the original illustrations that accompany many of her pieces and delve deeper into her life with a concise and accurate biography, biographical photos and documents, and an extensive bibliography.
Essential Short Stories
BY WOMEN OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: VOLUMES 1 and 2
The best short stories by distinguished women writers—from those who have earned more widespread attention to those who haven’t yet but are just as deserving.
This informed and comprehensive collection combines the stories by women most admired during the Harlem Renaissance with those most studied since then.
Short-Take Essential Short Stories Volumes 1 and 2 together, plus eight bonus stories.
25 short stories by 25 writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Angelina Weld Grimké.
The Saturday Evening Quill
STORIES, POEMS & PLAYS BY BOSTON'S WOMEN OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
The Harlem Renaissance wasn’t limited to Harlem.
Boston’s Saturday Evening Quill Club published its celebrated literary magazine, The Saturday Evening Quill, annually from 1928 to 1930. The three issues contain stories, poems, and plays by some of the most talented, prolific, and distinguished African American writers of the era. W.E.B. Du Bois said of The Saturday Evening Quill, “Of the booklets issued by young Negro writers in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere, this collection from Boston is by far the most interesting and the best.”
This anthology celebrates the women of The Saturday Evening Quill. It includes illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones and the literary art of Helene Johnson, Edythe Mae Gordon, Alvira Hazzard, Gertrude Schalk, Florida Ruffin Ridley, Alice E. Furlong, Florence Marion Harmon, Marion G. Conover, Gertrude Parthenia McBrown, and Grace Vera Postles.
Historic Reprint
RACE RHYMES AND THE WIDENING LIGHT
Two complete volumes of poetry by Carrie Williams Clifford, a dynamic activist, award-winning writer, and champion of women's rights. They are poems of pride, protest, and personal reflections. Many address significant historical events. This is a faithful reproduction of both volumes
Upcoming
THE POEMS WE KEEP
Prized and Most Anthologized Poems by Women of the Harlem Renaissance
During the Harlem Renaissance, the talent and drive belonged as much to the women as they did to the men. Here are their poems published in the major African American anthologies, and those that won prizes in a series of literary contests conducted by major periodicals.
Poems by Angelina Weld Grimké, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Gwendolyn Bennett, and more
Upcoming
TAKING CENTER STAGE
Twenty-Five One-Act Plays by Women of the Harlem Renaissance
The unique perspectives of the women of this dynamic era are demonstrated in their powerful plays. Many of these one-act plays were produced but never published—forever lost to modern readers. This comprehensive collection includes 25 one-act plays rescued from obscurity. Eleven of these won awards in the prestigious African American literary contests held between 1925 and 1927. Each is as poignant and pertinent today as it was a century ago.
Plays by Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Marita O. Bonner, and more.